I shouldn't have started shopping for one of these with Bluetooth! Wow, choices are endless, lots with really good reviews as well as the same one getting awful reviews. Argggggggghhhhhhhh!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
I shouldn't have started shopping for one of these with Bluetooth! Wow, choices are endless, lots with really good reviews as well as the same one getting awful reviews. Argggggggghhhhhhhh!
I just try to pick the item with the most reviews, and a good overall rating. Most everything will have a certain percentage of one star.
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It can just be read during the day while driving, polarized sunglasses will block it out, but at night the intensity is just right. You don't want a bright LED display glaring in your face at night.
It does a good job of charging a phone. Not super slow like the oid lighter socket chargers of the past.
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I love that, what a cool idea, a Voltmeter and USB in one, genius! Silly question but what is closest/easiest switched feed for relay and did you just use the original lighter 'always on' wire for the power feed to relay?
It seems to me I used the "IGN" terminal on my fusebox that wasn't being used. Yes, I just used the original wire for the lighter socket. As I recall, I didn't chop the end off it, rather plugged a short home made adapter wire into it so if I ever want to put my lighter back to original configuration it will be 1-2-3 done.
Thanks Carl (& Mark), that makes sense just wanted to make sure I wasn't missinig something. My IGN feed on my fusepanel is already going to my Elect. Ignition but Mark's idea of radio sounds like a plan, my AM Radio works but I never use it and if I do replace with one of those 'fancy' Autosound or similar ones I'm sure the 'trigger' for the relay must draw very little current.
Guys, on an update on the lighter socket Voltmeter,
I never did install a relay to the plug. Turns out leaving the little meter plugged in and on is a great way of instantly checking your battery condition at a glance.
When I return from a good drive and shutdown, the display usually reads around 12.6 volts. Over a week or longer, as I pass by the car, I peek in at the display. It slowly begins to drop over that time, and when I see it reach 12.2 I figure it's probably time for a drive, or at least a hookup to a maintainer.
I'm imagining a voltage drop of .4 or so of a volt over a week and a half to be normal? The only draw on the battery would be the little meter itself, and the clock.
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